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title: At that moment he scented a panther and in an instant was bounding a… — The Aesop for Children · tree and pragmatics
description: At that moment he scented a panther and in an instant was bounding away through the forest. Who acts: Stag. A sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag and His Reflection, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Aesop for Children, The Stag and His Reflection, sentence 4

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At that moment he scented a panther and in an instant was bounding away through the forest.

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**Who acts:** Stag · **What happens:** scent, bound away · **To what, where:** panther, instant

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This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag and His Reflection. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stag), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg19994:53:4
# text = At that moment he scented a panther and in an instant was bounding away through the forest.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	scented	scent	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	panther	panther	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	bounding	bound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
14	away	away	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	through	through	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scent** | past | Stag | a panther |  |  | moment |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent panther=Destination |
| 2 | **bound away** | past · progressive | Stag *not said here* |  |  | a instant |  | through the forest; away *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in instant=Trajectory |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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